Insomniacs. How insane do you get??

I've had chronic insomnia for 6 years now and I've just relied on doctor described pills ( Deptran was the best ) but recently I've decided to go pill free because the side affects of the pills are not kool with me.
 
Well... It's not fun, it's either getting completely wasted every night ( not kool ) or relying on valium/ ect (still pills but no side effects... Excluding addiction... ) to fall asleep.

How many of you are insomniacs?

How do you cope wit it? 

Edit: to topic: I do get quite mad. world domination, getting brandy stuck to my shirt. All the same... No?

And I think my parents are having sex in the next room... .... ... .. ... ...

I have Night terrors and waking dreams... Some times I don't know if I am awake or asleep...

I can't switch off at night, just keeping thinking about random rubbish and find myself only getting 4 hours to 6 hours a night, I don't know if you would class that as Insomnia... Its broken and chaotic sleep...

I don't take tablets... I keep my eyes open and stare at the celing until my eyes water and sting like mad until I can't keep them open, that gets me to sleep, but I only do that when I am really having trouble sleeping...

A Pint of Guiness has lots of Iron in and sits heavy on the brain... That can help... Av a pint an hour before trying to sleep... A Pint a day is supposedly good for you... I mix mine with Red wine, again supposed to be good for you... again though I do this when things are pretty hard going...

I like Guiness  . I find it better as a meal replacement rather then sleep exchange-ment.... But yeh, sleep disorders suck!!! * Quite Drunk *

Mixing Guiness with Red Wine is a mixture that can cause head-ache...

Try this one... Guiness with a little backcurrent, then add a Double Voka Lemonaid and lime into it... taste like refresher sweets... Gets you hammered after 3 or 4 of em... Actually don't, its not good advice for some one that drinks to encourage them to drink more, when you want to cut back on it...

Ah... one other method, get some Radox, run a Hot Bath with some in (Get the Relaxant version)... I usally end up falling asleep in the bath for two hours or so... Wake up stone cold with a stiff neck, but its very easy to pass out in Hot water with that stuff in there...

Mike Old Field or Tubar Bells Music CD's are very good for relaxing me... Try just closing your eyes and listening to it while laying down, you may not fall into a deep sleep but it helps calm the mind and you may get some lucid sleep... Either way the music aint half bad...

Good luck...

I don't suffer as bad as you two, but I can never just drift of when I go to bed. I'm just lying there for hours...looking at the ceiling. Its very dirty.

Anyway, im to young for most effective pills, so I just have to live with it. And I get pissed of really quickly as well, I just learned to hid and ignore it.

But you two have it worse of.

Meh, I only sleep for about 5-6 hours on school nights and about twice that on the weekends. Seems like a good enough sleep schedule to me.

Meh, I only sleep for about 5-6 hours on school nights and about twice that on the weekends. Seems like a good enough sleep schedule to me.

To be honest I still function OK... I still go to work, but I tend to get run down easy like mouth ulcers and get slugish and Ache a bit... thats at really or I could just be getting old... LOL

I don't feel I need to see a doctor for lack of sleep... I have seen one about my dreams though...POsted some of them here in this thread:- http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,8367.15.html

I don't suffer as bad as you two, but I can never just drift of when I go to bed. I'm just lying there for hours...looking at the ceiling. Its very dirty.

Anyway, I’m to young for most effective pills, so I just have to live with it. And I get pissed of really quickly as well, I just learned to hid and ignore it.

But you two have it worse of.

That's how it started out for me. Just laying there with no lights on for about 5+ hours before drifting un conscience. It's mental torture ( well it wasn't until I found out that normal people fall asleep within 7 min's ).

Now I just don't sleep full stop, with out outside help that is.

I will be trying that Guinness Tonic Doc 

I have mild insomnia. I was up until 6 am last night until i somehow managed to sleep.

Jesus, you have it bad. Wait, what time did you got to bed.

6, and I finally got to sleep around 5:30 last night.

What's the longest you guys have gone with out sleep? I've done 4 days. I must say after you haven't slept for awhile the effects are trippy, I tend to push pass the tired stage and go into a different mode, it's almost like being drunk with clarity added to it... You see things in a different light...

I've gone 4 days without sleep too. I think it was over something stupid like a bet.

Only two days over here.

I tend to be fairly awake when asleep and fairly asleep when awake... I have what my doctor said is waking dreams... like the other day I walked past the water cooler and saw a gold fish swimmimg in it, and that made me think about whaling and then I was back at my desk and I don't recall moving from the water cooler, unless I sailed there... But if I Consentrate I do remeber the walk back but its more vivid than the Goldfish and the whaling I took part in... Reading that back its pretty shocking... Oh well... Most of my painting come from my experince and with out them I think I would go Mad with boardem...

I have an over active imagination, and when I have no out let I get worst, so thats why I try and make Games, like RPG's, Levels for 1st person shooters, Paint, Play War Hammer, Magic the Gathering and all other Geeky stuff... even though I turn 28 next month...LOL

I've gone 2 days, too.

Not sure how long I have gone... Some times I only have 2 hours sleep, or a little more, power napping, I don't think I have gone without sleep for any longer than 32 hours... So I don't think I have things too bad.

Well you know whats funny? I tried going to bed a couple hours ago. And I can't sleep. I don't think it's ha ha funny, just ironic.

my sister is kind of, she has a lot of trouble falling asleep... maybe she has it, i have no idea

Can she fall to sleep eventually?

Can she fall to sleep eventually?

sometimes no... like sometimes shes awake the whole night

She has Insomnia. I think....

i hope not 
well i guess she needs to talk to a doctor about it

If she seriously can't fall asleep some nights, then yeah.

I've gone 3 days. Not my limit, but my grandmother did everything she could till I finally went to sleep.

School was itself a dream.

I can relate with the Night Terrors and Waking Dreams thing. It suxxorz teh big one1111!!! (Reference to a flash vid)

That's why I spend most of my time in the IRC at night. It forces me to utilize my brain, expending energy till I can finally get to sleep. (not to say some of chats we have really require much brain power xD )

My sleeps schedual is 2:00 am - 6:00 am (4 hours) and on the weekends 2:00 am - 1:00 pm.

It stinks. I remember comming really close to failing one year because I couldn't focus.